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DMDeveloper
DMDeveloper

Reputation: 53

Multi application cache - WCF?

I am designing a shared "service/app" for caching .NET objects and access them from several applications (asp.net, winforms...). Is the WCF approach a good choice? I'd like also to allow events subscriptions for the applications to know when a cached object has been changed, or something like that.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 151

Answers (1)

Dmitry Harnitski
Dmitry Harnitski

Reputation: 6008

What you are asking is named Distributed Cache.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942840.aspx

In scenarios like yours the most efficient solution will be using some existing system instead of inventing own bicycle.

MS recently developed its own software that implements Distributed Cache. Software name is AppFabric. Actual version is 1.1. It can be used free of charge.

AppFabric consists of several features. You need to loock at AppFabric 1.1 Caching Features

Check this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh334305 - Caching Features architectural overview

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19603 - samples

Upvotes: 2

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